December 3, 2018
United StatesAnniversaries recall our triumphs, honor our losses, and mark our tragedies. Two thousand eighteen witnessed many significant anniversaries: the centennial of the end World War I, the fiftieth annive…
March 19, 2010
JapanThis week I testified in front of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Environment on the U.S.-Japan relationship. Judging by the Japanese press coverage, it was c…
November 16, 2018
Conflict PreventionResearchers and practitioners should pay greater attention to the human beings at the center of conflict politics.
November 12, 2018
CybersecurityCompared to the rise of air and nuclear power, for example, research into cyber has yet to identify “settled truths.”
December 1, 2015
CybersecurityIn this latest episode of the Net Politics podcast, I sit down with Christopher Painter, coordinator for cyber issues at the U.S. State Department.
October 12, 2018
CybersecurityThis week: Questioning the Bloomberg SuperMicro story, giving the EU authority to sanction in response to cyber operations, Google drops out of JEDI, intelligence sharing to counter China.
October 10, 2016
AsiaIn forty years, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam has swung about as widely as is possible. In 1975, the United States cut diplomatic ties with the country after the end of the V…
October 5, 2018
Polls and Public OpinionYou tend not to notice oxygen until it’s gone. That saying came to mind as I read the results of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’s annual survey of American attitudes on foreign policy, which w…
October 3, 2018
Southeast AsiaLast month, the State Department released a report investigating violence against Rohingya in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. Although the report concluded that the violence was “extreme, large-sca…
October 2, 2018
Donald TrumpThe U.S. congressional midterm elections are just six weeks away. The good folks over at ChinaUSFocus.com noticed all of the talk about a Democratic win after all the votes are counted on November 6…